Watson Head’s Departure Raises Questions About IBM Moonshot

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Spencer E. Ante

Feb 28, 2014 3:07 pm ET

Manoj Saxena, the International Business Machines executive overseeing its artificial intelligence Watson technology, told IBM employees on an internal conference that working on Watson was the highlight of his professional life, according to a call transcript reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.

Less than four months later, Saxena has left IBM to join The Entrepreneurs’ Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund.